26 “You are not to eat anything with blood in it.[a](A) You are not to practice divination(B) or sorcery.(C) 27 You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.(D) 28 You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead(E) or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am Yahweh.

29 “Do not debase[b](F) your daughter by making her a prostitute,(G) or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:26 Or [anything] over its blood
  2. Leviticus 19:29 Lit profane

26 “Do not eat meat that has not been drained of its blood.

“Do not practice fortune-telling or witchcraft.

27 “Do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards.

28 “Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord.

29 “Do not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be filled with prostitution and wickedness.

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